It's rather focused on the Randstad.

Presumable because that's where the jobs are... (it's a barren wasteland on the startup front here in the south)

It's telling how little tech startup activity there is around Eindhoven, despite the massive amount of PR going out that this is going to be the country/continent's next silicon valley.

AFAIK there's quite some startup activity going on, but only a handful of 'traditional' internet startups. (including my http://betali.st/)

Hmm yeah, true - there's heavy machinery startups like SoLayTec, is that the kind of stuff you mean?

Btw, I hadn't heard of betalist, and that's now officially the only 'traditional' internet startup in this area that I know of. Any more?

I'm not really familiar with the specifics of what's going on at the high tech campus, but I know there's a lot of stuff happening there.

Some other startups based in Eindhoven:

- http://www.filedropme.com/

- http://www.redefinestudio.nl/

- https://www.jibr.com/

- http://www.studyportals.eu/

- http://www.izooble.com/

And of course Shapeways[1] which recently raised $30M from Andreessen Horowitz amongst others [2]. Although their HQ is now in NYC they started out in Eindhoven and still have an office here. Their BV is also still located in Eindhoven.

[1] http://shapeways.com/

[2] http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases-test/shapeways-annou...

Yeah and that's even Eindhoven, where you'd expect tech startup activity, but in the south-south that I was thinking about, it's 10 times worse still.